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The Silvery Path
by Dennis Scheel

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Will it end in peace or a silvery dose of fate?

Henna’s manipulation knows no bounds,

Denida is still the object of her prophecy, while Lucifer, God, and Gabriel remain in her sights.

Having seen her son, Nina is more determined than ever to bring him back from Henna’s world of dead souls. Meanwhile, the Darkness runs rampant across the Underworlds and on Earth as Lucifer’s grief over Heavani’s death overwhelms him.

Everyone has their own goals and ends, but one thing is inescapable: the bright silvery path that Henna willed.

Can these characters escape destiny’s hold on them, or will they become pawns in Henna’s quest for revenge?

A Day in the Life of Henna

Henna starts her day in her world, where dead souls from every era throughout history worship her. Due to irritating circumstances in the past, she makes sure her world is calm and that all the souls still worship her. Sometimes, she may ask some of them to run simple errands for her as a test of loyalty. While she doesn’t expect to be betrayed, and she can read the future to make sure things are going according to her plan, there are a few souls she wants to keep an eye on, just in case circumstances begin to shift and branch towards an undesirable outcome. 

After mingling with her subjects, she teleports to Valhalla to meet with Odin and Thor. Odin is her most loyal, subservient god, who will always regard her as the true queen amongst the divine. After all, he was one of the first to be granted divinity. Henna asks Odin for updates on Denida and Den’s behavior, whereabouts, and interactions. Having tasked him with carrying out her desired outcome, it’s integral for her to make sure she knows which of fate’s branches are more likely to manifest based on what Odin has done and witnessed himself. This gives her more clarity into how her prophecy is developing. Additionally, interacting with Odin in front of Thor teaches Thor to recognize her supreme might, so that he may also fall in line and become one of her pawns. She anticipate he will follow Odin’s example and become another key player in bringing about her desired fate. 

After these interactions, Henna is called down to the Underworlds by one of her agents. This agent demands payment for their services. Henna thinks on her feet and gives this person a small taste of their desired reward, just to demonstrate her ability to grant their wish, if only they continue to comply. Having satisfied her servant, Henna is free to carry on.

Now around midday, Henna delves into her mind’s eye to see which branches of fate are falling into place, quickly measuring how different they are from what she thought would happen based on Odin’s previous report. Sometimes, fate is fickle, and changes, and she must adapt, as she has in the past. She realizes Denida is not acting how she and Odin predicted he would and is causing an undesirable version of fate to manifest. She pays him a visit and realizes that he’s facing an issue, which seems massive for him, but is inconsequential in her grand plan, so she offers him a solution so that he can get back on track quickly. He rejects her offer to help, which frustrates her, as it always does, but she realizes she must address this differently.

She contacts her agents to interact with Shaddai and Azal, amping up their conflict to epic proportions in order to force Denida’s hand and get him back under her thumb. Once he’s focusing on the bigger issue, bringing about her prophecy, she can check the paths of fate again, and make sure that everything is falling into place again. 

Satisfied, she returns to her world to end her day amongst her subjects. 

The Colonel sat in front of a cluster of seven monitors, which displayed live feeds from robots across the Underworlds. Naphtali spoke to the Colonel from World Eight’s feed. 

“Things will be different with Dan in charge, won’t it?” Naphtali asked.

The Colonel shrugged. “I sure hope not. Denida left him in charge, so it shouldn’t be that bad. Thankfully, we don’t have any demons running amuck anymore.”

“Yeah, everything’s better, now.” Naphtali smiled widely.

“I wonder…” The Colonel scratched his head. “- if this ‘war’ of Lucifer’s will change that.”

Naphtali’s smile froze. “War?”

“The one against Heaven.”

Naphtali gasped. “Lucifer wants war with Heaven? I thought God and Lucifer would always just have a private power struggle between themselves.”

Why does it matter? 

“Beep,” a monitor a few screens away flicked on. 

The Colonel tilted his head. Earth? “Just a sec, Naphtali.” He approached the monitor.

“Is anyone there? Demons are attacking us!” a soldier stared in the camera with wide, bloodshot eyes, as a demon tackled him, terminating the feed.

How can demons be on Earth? The Colonel wiped a bead of sweat on the back of his neck.

“John!” Naphtali hollered.

The Colonel blinked out of his daze and hurried back to World Eight’s feed.

Naphtali sat hunched over at the monitor, drenched in blood.

“What happened to you?”

“Demons,” Naphtali murmured. “Inform Denida.”

The Colonel nodded. “Are you okay to get cleaned up and-”

Naphtali spun around to a scuffle. A pair of demons slammed him into the feed, cutting the signal.

“Naphtali!” The Colonel punched the keys and shook the monitor. “Work, dammit!” After a few minutes of his eyes growing wide with concern, he jumped up and ran out, sprinting though the offices, eventually slamming through a door. “Dan!”

“What is it, now?” Dan put laid his pen on his desk and frowned.

“Demons… Naphtali needs our assistance. It’s not just Earth.”

“Naph…” Dan leaned back in his chair with a pensive expression.

“On World Eight, the former demon,” the Colonel reminded Dan.

Dan lit up, but bit his lip with concern. “Why are there demons in the Underworlds? I thought Denida ended that invasion.”

“Lucifer threw Denida out of Hell. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Denida’s deal, anymore.”

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Wring about myself… oh, the horror!

As a Christmas Child, I believe magic is everywhere, especially during the winter, and I try to weave that magic into my stories. After all, my firm belief in karma and destiny has shaped who I am, so it should guide my stories, as well.

I was born and raised in Denmark, but faced many challenges during my life, one of which was my inability to write my stories in Danish! I’ve had my stories brewing in my head since I was a child and struggled for years to express them properly. After recovering from a diabetic attack that left me hospitalized, I managed to find my writer’s voice in English, and am thrilled to now have the ability to share my tales with you.

Site: https://dennisscheel.com/

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